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On Wednesday 16 Apr 2003 01:58, Dave Nellans wrote: |
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> The question then remains is how to determine which package is the |
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> "default" to be installed if you use only the ebuild name. I haven't |
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> poked in the code to see how portage is doing it now, but can see three |
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> possible options. One being alphabetical by category, two being first |
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> come first serve, or three allowing the "most commonly installed" of |
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> the options defined by whomever is maintaining the package(s). The |
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> only downside is that portage/ebuilds will need yet another thing added |
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> to it similar to SLOTS to help support this =/ |
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Or perhaps better, emerge should fail and print a message like: |
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"There is more than one package with that name. Please use |
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'emerge <category>/<package>.ebuild' for the required package.'" |
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Peter |
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